Category: Author Interview

September 30, 2011

Interview with Diana Lobel, author of The Quest for God and the Good

“We need to get away from the popular caricature of God as an old man in the sky seated upon a throne.”—Diana Lobel The following is an interview with Diana Lobel, author of The Quest for God and the Good:...

September 29, 2011

Interview with Kenneth Goldsmith, author of Uncreative Writing

The following is an interview with Kenneth Goldsmith, author of Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age: Q: You teach a course fittingly enough and intriguingly called “uncreative writing.” What do more conventional creative writing courses fail to do?...

September 28, 2011

Gertrude Stein & Fascism: Interview with Barbara Will, author of Unlikely Collaboration

The following in an interview with Barbara Will, author of Unlikely Collaboration: Gertrude Stein, Bernard Faÿ, and the Vichy Dilemma Question: Why the title Unlikely Collaboration? What is the book trying to argue through this title? Barbara Will: When most...

September 20, 2011

James L. Powell Discusses The Inquisition of Climate Science on Climate Progress

Earlier this year, James Powell, author of The Inquisition of Climate Science , was interviewed by Climate Progress. (You can listen to the interview here.) In the interview, Powell discusses the book and the ways in which the “debate” about...

September 13, 2011

Paul Pillar on the Dark Side

In 2006, Paul Pillar, author of Intelligence and U.S. Foreign Policy: Iraq, 9/11, and Misguided Reform, appeared on the Frontline documentary The Dark Side, which examined how then-Vice President Richard Cheney pushed to expand executive power, transform America’s intelligence agencies...

September 8, 2011

Charles Strozier interviewed on the Crime Report

We continue our focus on Charles Strozier’s book Until the Fires Stopped Burning: 9/11 and New York City in the Words and Experiences of Survivors and Witnesses by featuring a recent interview he gave with the website The Crime Report....

August 12, 2011

Interview with Arshin Adib-Moghaddam

The Public Record recently interviewed Arshin Adib-Moghaddam, author of A Metahistory of the Clash of Civilisations: Us and Them Beyond Orientalism. In the interview Adib-Moghaddam, who was born to Iranian parents in Turkey, discussed the continuing controversy over Iran’s nuclear...

July 13, 2011

Q&A with Brent Stockwell on the future of drug discovery

The following is an interview with Brent R. Stockwell, author of The Quest for the Cure: The Science and Stories Behind the Next Generation of Medicines. Q: Why are so few new medicines being discovered? Brent R. Stockwell: This is...

June 23, 2011

Interview with Mark Kukis, author of Voices from Iraq

“The experience of the U.S. invasion and occupation scarred the country much more deeply than even I as a correspondent there imagined.”—Mark Kukis In a recent interview with Time magazine, Mark Kukis discussed his recently published book Voices from Iraq:...

May 20, 2011

Interview with William Egginton, author of In Defense of Religious Moderation

The following is an interview with William Egginton, author of t In Defense of Religious Moderation, and Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at The Johns Hopkins University. Question: What are everyday fundamentalisms? William Egginton: Physicists Stephen Hawking and...

May 18, 2011

Interview with Stephen Schryer, author of "Fantasies of the New Class"

The following is an interview with Stephen Schryer, author of Fantasies of the New Class: Ideologies of Professionalism in Post–World War II American Fiction. Q. What drew you to the topic of professionalism in post–World War II American fiction? Stephen...

May 16, 2011

Howard Marks Discusses The Most Important Thing on DealBook

Howard Marks was recently interviewed on the New York Times‘s blog DealBook to discuss his new book The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor. Marks describes how the book built upon the letter he has been writing...